[Geany-Users] debugging while interacting with program

[Matthew Brush]

On 15-02-13 11:34 AM, Richard Mindorff wrote:
> When using the komodo ide for php I could interact with my program, putting
> in data and using checkboxes and other HTML controls while debugging the
> code in the IDE.
> I would like to do the same thing for a C project. Geany uses GTK+ which has
> controls. Can I interact in some terminal  while debugging in the geany ide?
> Can I use other libraries like allegro to get controls that I can interact with?
> Thanks,
> rm_
>

Using Scope or one of the other GDB plugins you can do typical debugging 
stuff (set breakpoints, step into/over/next, etc) but I'm not sure 
you'll be able to (or want to) inject machine code for your favourite 
GUI library and jump to it and make it update GUI state, and so on from 
the GDB shell.

You can also just use plain old GDB command (or ncurses) interface, I 
think all the GDB plugins for Geany probably provide a terminal all 
hooked up to the debugger. GDB supports Python scripting IIRC, which 
might make the kind of thing it sounds like you want to do a little more 
bearable/possible.

If instead you want to muck around with Geany's GTK GUI from the command 
line, you probably want GeanyPy, which provides hooks into Geany's guts 
from Python, and provides a Python command line and would allow you to 
make windows with forms that could insert text into your source code, 
etc. It's a little unclear exactly what you want to do.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush